Chelsea (London)

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Chelsea
Kings Road, Chelsea
Kings Road, Chelsea
Coordinates 51 ° 29 ′  N , 0 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′  N , 0 ° 10 ′  W
OS National Grid TQ275775
Chelsea (Greater London)
Chelsea
Chelsea
administration
Post town LONDON
ZIP code section SW3
prefix 020
Part of the country England
region London
London Borough Kensington and Chelsea
British Parliament Chelsea and Fulham

Chelsea is a district in west London . It is located between Sloane Square and the Thames as the southern border. The district is part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . The football club of the same name, Chelsea FC , is based in the Fulham district.

Attractions

Chelsea Old Church around 1910

In the quarter is the Hospital for retired soldiers Royal Hospital Chelsea . It was built from 1682 to 1692 according to the plans of Christopher Wren . The National Army Museum is in the neighborhood . It was built on the site of the hospital annex built by John Soane in 1809 and destroyed in World War II.

The main street of the King's Road district was laid out in the 17th century by King Charles II to create a connection to Kew Palace . Until 1830, it was privately owned by the crown.

The King's Road was one in the 1960s and the 1970s to the centers of subculture of hippies and punks . Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood opened the SEX shop there in 1972 , selling punk-style fashion. The scene later moved to other parts of the city, mainly Notting Hill and Camden Town .

Chelsea is the seat of the Chelsea College of Art and Design . The Saatchi Gallery has been based in Chelsea since 2008 .

Known residents

Chelsea is the birthplace of

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Chelsea was considered a residential area for artists such as Thomas Carlyle , William Holman Hunt , George Meredith , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , John Singer Sargent , Algernon Swinburne , William Turner , James McNeill Whistler and Virginia Woolf . A particularly large number of artists lived on and in the vicinity of Cheyne Walk , where a large number of the houses date from the 18th century.

Well-known Chelsea residents also included Margaret Thatcher (on Flood Street ) and Mick Jagger . The politician William Wilberforce died in Chelsea in 1833.

Other known residents are or were:

Also Isadora Duncan lived in this area shortly. After leaving the United States with her family, she decided to start in Chelsea.

Web links

Wiktionary: Chelsea  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Chelsea  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files